Social Mobilization and the Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia (eBook)

John Perry, T. Debey Sayndee (Autoren)

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2016
118 Seiten
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6852-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The book offers a summary of the EVD crisis, and the ways it was defeated by the public who were energized by the gravity of the situation. It discusses the lessons learned, the effect of the disease on children, and the way forward for the international health care system.

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The Ebola virus disease represented a grave crisis for Liberia. After many years of civil conflict its health system had been weakened and there were too few physicians and health care workers who were willing and able to deal effectively with the disease which spread far beyond Africa to Europe and the United States of America. The book offers a convenient summary of the background of the EVD crisis, and the ways it was defeated by the public who were energized by the gravity of the situation. It discusses the lessons learned, the effect of the disease on children, and the way forward for the international health care system to prepare itself better for possible future epidemics of the same scale and gravity.

Autor

John Perry is a Canadian Jesuit who was at the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation and participated in an effort to teach people in the rural areas about the importance of effective hand washing with chlorine and water. T. Debey Sayndee is the Liberian Director of the Kofi Annan Institute for /Conflict Transformation. He has been involved in peace building in Liberia and other West African countries for many years.

Inhalt

ForewordAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Introduction: The Ebola Nightmare in Liberia and West AfricaChapter 2: The Ebola Nightmare in Liberia and West AfricaChapter 3: History of LiberiaChapter 4: How the Ebola Fight was won in LiberiaChapter 5: The Legacy of EbolaChapter 6: Lessons Learned after the Ebola CrisisChapter 7: The Law of Unintended ConsequencesChapter 8: Experience of Children during the Ebola Epidemic in MonroviaChapter 9: ConclusionBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African Studies • Conspiracy theories • Contagion • Ebola Virus Disease • EVD crisis • health system in Liberia • international support during EVD crisis • prevention of spread of EVD • Social Mobilization • vaccines • World Health Organization
• ISBN-10: 0-7618-6852-6 / 0761868526
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-6852-1 / 9780761868521